Import C under Windows 10

[drug007]

On 4/15/26 21:54, DLearner wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 April 2026 at 10:49:14 UTC, drug007 wrote:
>> On 4/15/26 10:20, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote:
>>>
>>> Usually, Windows Command Prompt does not automatically recognize VS 
>>> compilers (due to PATH issues). Just run everything in a x64 Native 
>>> Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019 (or 32 bit).
>>
>> Exactly! This link can be useful - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ 
>> visualstudio/ide/reference/command-prompt-powershell?view=visualstudio
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> For the record, by clearing out all earlier Visual Studio's and 
> downloading Visual Studio 2026, and using 'Developer Powershell', I 
> _finally_ made it work.
> 
> However, would it not be better if the Windows DMD download was 'battery 
> included', in the sense that the built-in C compiler did it's own 
> preprocessing?

I don't think it's worth it. Too much efforts for nothing. dmd does not 
contain an internal C compiler, not at all, dmd translates C to D AST. 
And dmd does not contain a preprocessor in any form. So you need to 
write C preprocessor from scratch.